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The Virginia Retirement System director is getting a $50,000 bonus, which state officials said helps to make her salary more competitive. The retirement systems recently told lawmakers that director Patricia Bishop is receiving a $50,000 tax-deferred...

President Trump's first budget request embraces many Obama administration ideas to dampen military compensation growth. It would cap the next military pay raise; hike health-care fees "modestly" for working-age military retirees, and increase...

President Donald Trump's proposed budget for fiscal year 2018 drew sharp criticism from the Democrats in the Hampton Roads congressional delegation and a tepid endorsement from one of the two Republicans.
Trump's proposal slashes student loan programs,...

The Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps are flush with quality recruits and are retaining enough second-termers and careerists to comfortably fill most enlisted job specialties, their personnel chiefs testified Wednesday before the House Armed...

When the first wave of active-duty personnel who opt into the new Blended Retirement System (BRS) next year start to retire a decade later, they will face a decision on retired pay so unusual that the Department of Defense Board of Actuaries has called it...

Political role models
With the fast approaching presidential election, I am reminded of my civic responsibility as an Ahmadi Muslim to vote and to hope and strive for the betterment of our country.
While I don't endorse any particular candidate, I do...

Young Americans with even just $1 saved for retirement are ahead of the pack. Forty-eight percent of all Americans aged 18 to 30 have zero in retirement savings and no access to a traditional pension, according to a GenForward poll by the Black Youth...

More than 740,000 active-duty members and 176,000 drilling Reserve and National Guard personnel are expected to opt in to the new BRS, or Blended Retirement System, when the choice becomes available in 2018 to military members with fewer than 12 years...

Four new utility poles in Denbigh have landed the city in the middle of a contentious new area of law.The issue is the tens of thousands of additional antennas that wireless firms across the nation say they need, and their ability to put them up on city...

As a first generation college graduate, 24-year-old Ciera Young has wondered whether her bachelor's degree gives her an edge or puts her at a disadvantage when she considers that she has no savings, no car and is obligated to repay student debt while...

Waited until the last minute to file your tax return?
Filing taxes in April can be business as usual for some millennials. But in the rush to file at the last minute, some 20-somethings and 30-somethings may make some costly mistakes.
After gathering...

Transparency in government is not only about accountability. It is also about trust.That point was brought home recently when the Virginia Retirement System decided to change the way it handled retirement accounts of about 13,000 past and present state...

The Virginia Retirement System is backing off planned changes to the retirement accounts held by about 13,000 past and present professors, instructors and other staffers at many of the state's colleges and universities.
That followed an outcry from...

Military leaders and Department of Defense pay experts have presented to Congress a reshaped version of that new "blended retirement" system for future service members, saying this one "best enables us to maintain the readiness of the All-Volunteer...

Despite vigorous opposition from a few colleagues who are military retirees, the House Armed Services Committee voted overwhelming on Wednesday to give future generations of service members something different from the all-or-nothing 20-year retirement...

Susan Bernardo trusted her stockbroker. She wound up losing a fortune. Her broker, David Harris, advised her to sell $400,000 worth of relatively safe municipal bonds, she says, and sink the proceeds into real estate and energy partnerships in hopes of...

The Military Coalition can make Congress tremble from time to time by presenting a united front of millions of members from more than 30 military associations and veterans' service organizations in support of, or opposition to, legislation impacting...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), new chairman of the Senate armed services' subcommittee on military personnel, has signaled he will defend retirement reforms proposed for a new generation of service members by the Military Compensation and Retirement...